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FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 





The Laying of the Corner Stone 


William Rainey Harper 
Memorial Library 





Ten o'clock 


June Fourteenth, Nineteen Hundred Ten 


Hebraic-minded in Teutonic frame, 

Great toiler, builder great, and greater friend, 
Creative hope, aspiring like a flame, 

Wielder of power to power’s most noble end, 
Live! live in us, brave spirit, teaching still 

The broader vision and the braver act. 

And in that valley of the staff and rod, 
Teach us the hero's will, 

Who smiles from lips by human anguish racked, 

And dies firm-trusting in a human God. 


—E. H. Lewis, Ph.D.’94 








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The Procession 


Introductory Statement 
The President 


Official Record of the Articles Placed within the 


Corner Stone 


Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, D.D., 
Secretary of the Board of Trustees 


The Laying of the Corner Stone 


Mrs. William Rainey Harper 


The Corner Stone Addresses 


Clement Walker Andrews, A.M., 
Librarian of the John Crerar Library 


Ernest DeWitt Burton, D.D., 
Professor and Head of the Department of New 
Testament Literature and Interpretation 


The Prayer 


Charles Richmond Henderson, Ph.D., D.D., 
University Chaplain 


The Recession 


With the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library will 
be connected on the level of the top or reading room floor 
the buildings to the west for Classics and Modern Languages, 
those to the east for History and Philosophy, and by stone 
bridges those to the north, Haskell and Law. The building, 
246 feet long and 60 feet wide, consists of a central section 
flanked on the east and west by rectangular towers, each 
approximately 60 by 50 feet and about 20 feet higher than 
Mitchell Tower. The towers will be occupied by stack 
rooms in the basement and first floors, and above by read- 
ing rooms, offices, and special rooms of various kinds. 
Eventually the central section will have four floors of stacks, 
one floor of library offices. The top floor will be devoted 
exclusively to the great reading room, approximately 54 by 
160 feet. There will be a suite of rest rooms for women on 
the second floor, and a conversation and smoking room for 
men in the east tower. The ultimate book capacity will be 
approximately one million volumes... On the first floor will 
be a beautiful lecture room, to be called the Harper Assembly 
Room. Just north of the library will be a statue of Presi- 
dent Harper. 


The Seventy-fifth Convocation will be held 
in the Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium at 
eleven o'clock. The address will be delivered 
by the Reverend Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, D.D., 
LL.D., President of the Armour Institute of 
Technology. Subject: “A Great Library.” 





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